C#: How to start a thread at a specific time [duplicate]

Answer 1

Any solution that depends on System.Timers.Timer, System.Threading.Timer, or any of the other timers that currently exist in the .NET Framework will fail in the face of Daylight Saving time changes. If you use any of those timers, you will have to do some polling.

Windows has a Waitable Timer that you can use, but it's not supported by any Framework class. I wrote a wrapper for it some years ago. The article I published is no longer available, but you can download the full source code from http://www.mischel.com/pubs/waitabletimer.zip

That said, if the only thing your program does is run once every day, or if the task it performs can be split off from the rest of the program, you're almost certainly better off with a scheduled task. And although I haven't ever used Quartz.NET, I have no problem recommending it based on the good reviews I've seen from people whose judgement I trust.

Answer 2

I would use Job Scheduling Library like Quartz or simply create console application and run it using windows task scheduler at the specific time of the day.

Why not just use System.Timers.Timer?

• Timers have no persistence mechanism.
• Timers have inflexible scheduling (only able to set start-time & repeat interval, nothing based on dates, time of day, etc.
• Timers don't utilize a thread-pool (one thread per timer)
• Timers have no real management schemes - you'd have to write your own mechanism for being able to remember, organize and retreive your tasks by name, e

Answer 3

This is something i used for achieving this kind of functionality. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12117/Simulate-a-Windows-Service-using-ASP-NET-to-run-sc

Answer 4

1- Call your application from another process

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD MyApplication.exe", "/C TIME 16:00");

2- Use Timer and each 1 minute check the current time.

3- Handle the Windows time changed event in your appliction and each time also check the current time more info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.systemevents.timechanged%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

I hope one of thoese will help you.